{"id":80,"date":"2011-06-23T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/do-we-really-see-the-sun"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:41:41","slug":"do-we-really-see-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/do-we-really-see-the-sun.html","title":{"rendered":"Do we really see the sun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e2015433372f18970c alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"6a00d8345263cd69e200e54f5086798833-800wi\" alt=\"6a00d8345263cd69e200e54f5086798833-800wi\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6a00d83524c19a69e2015433372f18970c-320wi.jpg\" \/> &#8220;The Son is the radiance of God\u2019s glory&#8221; (Hebrews 1:3 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>Scientists tell us that it takes eight minutes for the light from the sun to reach earth. Having reached the earth, sunlight is refracted through the atmosphere creating a glorious effect. These sun beams are what we see. We see the sun&#8217;s rays of light.<\/p>\n<p>But do we really see the sun?<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing a total eclipse of the sun when I was in elementary school. As the moon passed between the earth and sun, blocking the light that fell on the Eastern U.S., it left Mrs. McConnell&#8217;s third grade class awestruck. We couldn&#8217;t see the sun, but we could still see its rays. It was like the orb of the sun was black, but the rays still shot out all around.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the real question is concerning the light from the sun. Is the radiance of light that comes from the sun, the sun itself? In a word, yes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sun and its radiance are one.<\/li>\n<li>The radiance is different than the sun itself, yet one emanates from the other.<\/li>\n<li>This radiance is what we see. It is the glory of the sun. The sun does not create it. To see it is to see the sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps the author of Hebrews was gazing at a sunrise as he contemplated the Christ. We cannot see God, but Jesus has revealed Him to us. Christ is the radiance of God&#8217;s glory. He is the beauty of God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Son is the radiance of God\u2019s glory&#8221; (Hebrews 1:3 NIV). Scientists tell us that it takes eight minutes for the light from the sun to reach earth. Having reached the earth, sunlight is refracted through the atmosphere creating a glorious effect. These sun beams are what we see. We see the sun&#8217;s rays of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061,1,2062],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-weblogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}